Best advice you’ve been given • Paint for yourself, be true to yourself.

Goals/Aspirations • I'd love to have a team of artists helping me create my work in various mediums... and work on very large scale works.

Favorite artist • I don't have one favorite but I am always inspired by going to galleries and museums and seeing new work.

What are you reading • Bend don't break by Ping Fu, The Tao the Ching and Gary Larsen's The Far Side

Hope to learn how to • Recreate my paintings on textiles

You spend a lot of time thinking about • What inspires people. My next painting series. How connected everything is.

Favorite musical artist • Lately: Natural Self, Angus, Devendra Benhart, Passenger, Massive Attack, Cut Chemist, The Tributers, Little Dragon. Old school: U2, Pink Floyd, Queen, Procol Harum

What do you do when not creating art • Playing outside - cycling, running, walking. Hanging out with family and friends. Gallery and museum hoping.